geoffreycaveney's Judaeo-Greek theory

[geoffreycaveney]

Following up my observation in the previous post about the extreme frequency of medial occurrences of [d] after, but not immediately after, a gallows character in the same word, and the rarity of such occurrences of [p] and [f], I have now researched and can present here much more substantial specific evidence in support of the hypothesis that [d] is a substitute for [p] or [f] in such positions:

I have researched each of the 86 such occurrences of [p] and [f] in the MS, in medial position and somewhere after another gallows character in the same word. In a substantial number of cases, which I present below, such words are apparent doublets of the exact same word with [d] in place of [p] or [f], which usually appears more frequently with [d].

There are three categories of such words: 

• [d] as a substitute for [p] or [f]
  
• [d] as a substitute for [ep] or [ef]
  
• [d] as a substitute for [cph] or [cfh]
  

Many of these words are quite long, and it is striking that they appear in both the form with [p] / [f], and in the form with [d].

The most striking example of all actually has an extraneous [c] after the [f] in that form of the word, but this does not detract from the example:

[qokeefcy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[qokeedy] occurs 305 times

This is not an isolated example. In fact, there are almost two dozen more examples of such words, with a more precise substitution of [d] for [p]/[f], [ep]/[ef], or [cph]/[cfh]. (In two cases only there is [cfhh] for [cfh], or [cphh] for [cph].) Many of the words in question are quite long, and unlikely to occur in such pairs by coincidence or chance. 

Here are the numerous examples of this substitution phenomenon in Voynich MS words:

[d] for [p] or [f] :

[opchepy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[opchedy] occurs 50 times, and 35 more times as part of a longer word

[oteofy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 1
[oteody] occurs 39 times, and 14 more times as part of a longer word

[topaiin] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[todaiin] occurs 9 times, and 11 more times as part of a longer word

[qokopy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[qokody] occurs 9 times

[kolpy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[koldy] occurs 7 times, and 16 more times as part of a longer word

[shckhefy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[shckhedy] occurs 6 times

[chepchefy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[chepchedy] occurs 2 times

[pchofar] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[pchodar] occurs 2 times

[cphhofy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[cphody] occurs 2 times, and 1 more time as part of a longer word

[ykofar] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[ykodar] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 1

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[d] for [ep] or [ef] :

[okcheefy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[okchedy] occurs 25 times, and 42 more times as part of a longer word

[qokeoefy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 2
[qokeody] occurs 32 times

[qofcheepy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[qofchedy] occurs 8 times

[cthoepain] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 1
[cthodaiin] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .

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[d] for [cph] or [cfh] :

[qopchcfhy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[qopchdy] occurs 15 times

[fchecfhy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[fchedy] occurs 11 times, and 28 more times as part of a longer word

[fchcfhy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 5
[fchdy] occurs 4 times, and 17 more times as part of a longer word

[pcheocphy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[pcheody] occurs 7 times, and 5 more times as part of a longer word

[ckhcfhhy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
[ckhdy] occurs 4 times, and 24 more times as part of a longer word

[ykocfhy] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 1
[ykody] occurs 2 times

[pchecfhey] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 6
[pchedey] : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .

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Geoffrey